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Seedbox recommendations (thinking of switching) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Reliant1087@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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With Netflix and other streaming platforms increasing price, I finally decided to get a seedbox for my family members' needs with Plex/jellyfin.

My budget is 10-15 USD per month. I'm currently on the 11$ hostingby.design plan with 4TB storage and 9TB traffic, 10gbit connection. I've been mostly happy but,

  • Their app selection feels small though I've found most of the mainstream stuff.
  • I'm missing things like cross-seed, jellystat, jellyfin-vue, transmission and audiobookshelf.
  • Not happy with how apps installed by the GitHub scripts are not available on HTTPS.
  • Can't disable ssh password login for public key, which is making me really uncomfortable.
  • Their wiki seems quite sparse.

The other options I'm thinking of are:

  • 13$ HDD plan at seedhost.eu - 4TB/9TB but only 1gbps, downgrade in specs but seems to have more apps.
  • 14$ plan at ultra.cc with 3TB/8TB but 20gps (which feels like an overkill honestly). Also a downgrade but their wiki/app support looks top notch.

I really wish there was a way I could manage docker containers on my own on a similar shared setup without paying for a dedicated vps but haven't found something like that so far.

Any advice regarding the other providers, experience or otherwise would be greatly appreciated :)

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[–] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently it looks like, atleast on Ultra.cc, you can add your own reverse proxy configs to .apps/nginx/proxy.d and once you restart the nginx service if will proxy your requests. It's just up to you to configure it properly although Support won't help you with that. I imagine the other providers also have something similar although it may not be as straightforward

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey, you've been really helpful, so thank you :) The reason I didn't go with Singapore is because my partner currently lives in the US and this is mostly for her, I have my own homelab setup that I haven't exposed to the internet.

I'll checkout if I can write my own nginx files on hostinby as well based on what you said :D

Ultra looks to have the most apps supported out of the box, so I might switch to them if I can't iron out stuff on hbd. I saw that hbd has a script for homebrew of all things. Are you familiar with using brew to install stuff on Linux?

[–] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never used homebrew so I'm not sure. Looking at their discord, it's also not supported by them so I don't even know how you'd go about it tbh. Try it out and see if you can figure it out, maybe it's just a simple path issue

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. I got pipx and npx working so, simple things should be fine. I really wish distrobox would work but it hasn't so far.

[–] yoichi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the first I'm hearing of distrobox. Guessing you need root priveleges for that?

[–] Reliant1087@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not really, you can use rootless docker or podman but the seedbox owners need to add you to the correct groups and they're not willing to do that.